FRANKFURT, Germany — The Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main’s current renovation and expansion plan on the Westend Campus site will take the total capacity of the campus from 10,000 students currently to around 45,000 by 2014, and BFE Studio und Medien Systeme, a Mainz-based integration company, specified Renkus-Heinz Iconyx IC16 Digitally Steerable Arrays for three new buildings on campus. The three buildings, the House of Finance, the Rechts-und Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Law and Economics) building and the Hörzaalzentrum (Center) have been completed and equipped with AV systems designed by Datech Consulting’s Detlef Hartmann and installed by BFE under project manager Jörg Alberti.
Each building has its own media network, with Peavey MediaMatrix Nion used for audio routing. The central lecture building houses two 1,200-seat divisible rooms and four smaller 300-seat lecture rooms. Each room is equipped with Panasonic PTD 7000 projectors, a Crestron QuickMedia media control solution and a pair of Renkus-Heinz IC16 Digitally Steerable Array units to minimize wall and ceiling reflections and enhance intelligibility.
The marble-floored House of Finance has wood-panelled seminar rooms, each seating up to 70 students. These have horseshoe-shaped seating tiers, each with two or three students sharing a built-in beyerdynamic gooseneck conference microphone with a priority push button.
Each room is similarly equipped with left and right Renkus-Heinz IC16 active column arrays, also networked via the Peavey NION system, complementing the three lecturer-controlled Panasonic PTD7700s, with a large Crestron touch screen, keyboard/mouse and a visualizer. Sources include a Marantz flashcard audio recorder.
Similar but smaller rooms on the ground floor are equipped with passive, mechanically steerable Renkus-Heinz IC7 column arrays.
The new Law and Economics facility’s nine seminar rooms are fitted with Renkus-Heinz IC7 columns, Panasonic PTD 7700 projectors and 8-inch Crestron TPMC touch-panels. As with the rest of the site, the rooms are all networked via CobraNet/Nion and Crestron QuickMedia so that lectures can be bridged across more than one room, or so the audio can be recorded on Marantz recorders.
“The Iconyx units are exceptionally useful in situations like this where you want to focus high quality sound very precisely,” noted Atlantic Audio’s Wolfgang Garçon.
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